And his sandal shoon.”
“Or,” remarks Sir John Cullum, “as he is described in Greene’s Never too Late, 1610;”—
“With Hat of straw, like to a swain,
Shelter for the sun and rain,
With scallop-shell before.”
Emblem 24. Fronte nulla fides,—“No trustworthiness on the brow.” The motto with a different device occurs in Whitney’s Emblems, p. 100, and was adopted by him from the Emblems of John Sambucus; edition Antwerp, 1564, p. 177. The device, however, in “the painted closet” was “a man taking the dimensions of his own forehead with a pair of compasses;” “a contradiction,” inaptly remarks Sir J. Cullum, “to a fancy of Aristotle’s that the shape and several other circumstances, relative to a man’s forehead, are expressive of his temper and inclination.”
POVR CONGNOISTRE
VN HOMME.
Symeoni, 1561.